[clue-tech] video issues I'd like help with at this months installfest

[Kevin Kempter]

On Sunday 11 January 2009 10:16:52 Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 17:15 -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> > Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > > 2) I can't seem to figure out how to do a dual monitor setup
> >
> > Have you ever done that before?
>
> In F10, some drivers are auto detected by the xorg core now.  They don't
> even have an xorg.conf.  In some cases (such as the ATI Radeon 7000 I
> have at work) you can use GNOME's configuration tools to enable dual
> monitors.  I had to copy in my old xorg.conf to make this work.  In
> other cases you may be able to use xrandr to manually configure the two
> displays.  You should read the man page for your particular driver.  If
> you don't know what driver you have, goto init 3, login as root and run
> X -configure to generate /root/xorg.conf.new.  Then look in there for
> the driver name.
>
> Xinerama may be needed but I've found GNOME/latest-xorg-release seems to
> handle that case fairly well now.  Don't know about KDE.
>
> For the intel series of graphics chips, found primarily in laptop
> computers or embedded on motherboards AFAIK, you have to manually
> generate the xorg.conf and then specify a virtual size that fits the two
> displays (assuming they share the same desktop).  Then you can use
> xrandr.  With older intel chipsets (such as the i915 and earlier) you
> may need to rebuild intel driver to make this work correctly.  There are
> many reported problems with the intel driver in F10 working with dual
> monitors, however I was able to get mine working.  If you need more
> info, see my blog:
> http://www.graphics-muse.org/wp/?p=314

Thanks everyone for the help. I'll plan to be at installfest this month with 
my laptop & external monitor.

I'll bring a few copies of Fedora 10 as well. I may even have some give-away 
items laying around if that would be desirable.